And more Mika...

So my photography blog may be filled with only pics of my sweet daughters Maddy and Mika for awhile since I am taking a short maternity leave from my photography business to focus on my family for a couple months. I still need my photography fix and whether they like it or not, my little girls get to be my models! We haven't ventured too much outdoors since Mika is still small, so I set up studio on my bed, couch, or wherever the natural light hits and take pics whenever I get the urge and my little girls will let me!

Here is my baby girl Mika modeling her cute little hair flower and outfit given to her by my good friend Katie of Mia Moo Designs... Check out her blog to purchase cute hair accessories, dresses and more... This little girl laughs in her sleep! We will hear these funny little giggles and look down at her and she is actually laughing! (Probably thinking of all the funny things she can do to make sure mommy doesn't sleep at night (= )! She smiles a ton too...

Thanks Katie! Love the little tutu!

Mika

Love her!

Look what the stork dropped off...

My friend Ashlee and I collaborated and pulled out the infamous tree branch structure to get this pic of Mika. After over 3 hours of trying to get her to sleep, we finally got the pics we were looking for! I'm so thankful for Ashlee for not letting me give up! I love the colors and love my squishy little baby girl in these shots Ashlee and I got...

Mika was 1 week old in these pics. More to come later...

Sisters...

Maddy LOVES her baby sister Mika, and has been such a sweetie and such a great helper! She was only jealous for a second, and now she is so cute with her sister. She says "Love you Mika", "where baby Mika?", "Soooo cute!", "ewwwwww" (when the baby has a dirty diaper), (= and lots of other cute phrases about her sister all day. She loves getting diapers and wipees, and throwing away the dirty diapers for me. I'm so lucky to have 2 sweet little girls...
This pic was shot by my good friend Ashlee who helped me shoot some newborn pics of Mika since I was too tired to do them alone. There are more to come! Thanks Ashlee!

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Baby Mika Susan Nguyen

We are so blessed to welcome our newest addition Baby Mika Susan Nguyen, born March 10th, 7 lbs 8 oz and 19 inches long. She is the sweetest baby ever! We love her to death and never want to put her down...

Happy Valentines and Happy New Year!

We had a very eventful weekend! We celebrated Valentine's Day at Javier's (my fav!), Chinese New Year with family and a Nascar race with great neighbors! Pictures of Maddy in her traditional Vietnamese dress to come... Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend!

BTW - 3 weeks to go! We are being induced to have our new little girl on March 10th, if she doesn't decide to come a little earlier (which I wouldn't be surprised!) !

Will you be my Valentine??

Wishing Everyone a Happy Holiday!

I heard a little rumor...

Cafe Rio is finally here! Opening day is Dec 28th! I don't know if it's being pregnant or what, but I've been craving this since the day I heard it was coming to town (like a year ago!) I hope it's still as good as I've been remembering from my Utah days...and dreaming of!

I think for sure the next Cafe Rio should be in Huntington Beach! I'd go every day!

Oh Santa Clause...

A picture is worth a thousand words...


Ho Ho Ho...

Oh Christmas Tree, Oh Christmas Tree!

We are so excited to have a real Christmas tree this year and to be in our own home! Last year we were moving around, and it is so nice to have a home to decorate and put up a tree in! Maddy had so much fun at the Christmas tree lot running around through all the baby trees...

She was so excited to have one of her favorite people ever Noah to come play with her and help pic out trees! Maddy loves hugs!

Luckily we found a great tree! There wasn't many this year on the lot. Our poor neighbors went home empty handed... guess they were just not as quick as Tony...
Family Portrait with our tree. I didn't realize I was being swallowed up by the tree, but maybe it's a good thing! My belly is getting pretty big!

Cheeeeese!

Decorating the tree...

balls, balls, balls... one of Maddy's new favorite words..

Happy Holidays everyone!

It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year... Almost!

Just a little sneak peak of my little dancing queen in her new Holiday dress! We are trying to be early instead of late this year on Holiday cards...

Can't wait for the Holidays to arrive!

Happy Halloween!

Halloween 2009 So Far...

We went to Tanaka Farms a couple weeks ago with our neighbors...

Maddy loved trying to pick up all the pumpkins! She loves climbing too... She was in heaven with all the pumpkins and hay to climb on...Happy Birthday Jonas... Maddy loved the bounce house at Jonas' big birthday bash...

Facepainting... She wasn't so sure about, but looked sooo cute!Maddy had no fear when the Creature Teacher came and was trying to hug and squeeze all the lizards, sat on the turtle...
Wanted to take home the giant snake...

Trunk Or Treat with our friends the Child Family...Maddy's practice run for getting all the candy on Halloween. She pulled out sucker after sucker wanting us to unwrap it so she can get one taste and move on to the next one...

Today we went to another pumpkin patch with Maddy's friend Brynlee... They loved the little rides...

This was Maddy's favorite, she couldn't wipe the grin off her face the whole time!And of course Maddy had to hug all the pumpkins in her own cute little way of hugging... putting her head on them...Can't wait to see what fun Halloween day will bring! Happy October!